This month, I had the opportunity to teach an environmental writing workshop at MING Studios in response to the themes of RIPARIA, a multimedia collaborative art exhibition that explores our relationship with water. RIPARIA is the brainchild of the Ecogeoglyphic Observatory, a Boise-based eco-collective.
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Workshop | Bird Words with Golden Eagle Audubon Society
Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to lead a nature writing workshop with the Golden Eagle Audubon Society at the Foothills Learning Center.
Reading | Writers Read (Star, ID)
This month, I had the opportunity to read from my forthcoming poetry collection Lost Cathedral as part of the Writers Read series at the Ada Community Library in Star, ID.
Reading | SoulFood Poetry Night (Seattle, WA)
Last month, I had the opportunity to read work from Lost Cathedral, my forthcoming ecopoetry collection, as one of two featured readers for the SoulFood Poetry Night reading series in Redmond (outside Seattle).
Continue readingResidency | Cape Disappointment State Park (Long Beach Peninsula)
In May and early June, I spent time at Cape Disappointment State Park as an artist-in-residence in the Sou’wester Artist Residency Program. I spent a week hiking through coastal rainforests, headlands, beaches, and coves on Cape Disappointment and the Long Beach Peninsula.
Continue readingResidency | The Rice Place (Oregon)
In May, I spend a week at The Rice Place, an artist residency in Oregon. The Rice Place was named for novelist and memoirist Clyde Rice, who published his first book (the memoir A Heaven in the Eye) at eighty one.
The residency took place at Rice’s former home, a 1930s farm house situated within 10 acres of farmland along the Clackamas River, views of lush foliage from every window.
Continue readingReading | MING Studios 7 O’clock Series
In April, I did a poetry reading at MING Studios as part of their 7 o’clock reading series.
Continue readingReading | Storyfort 2023
In March, I read at the Poetry & Mimosas event at Ochos for the Storyfort literary festival (one of the “forts” of Treefort Music Festival).
I read environmental poetry from an ongoing collection I wrote for a National Park residency. You can hear a recording of poems from the collection on Episode 72 of the MING Studios My On Mondays podcast series hosted by JR Rivero Kinsey.
Continue readingReading | Flipside Fest & Death Rattle Literary 9th Anniversary Showcase
I recently participated in two literary readings: Flipside Fest in September and the Death Rattle 9th Anniversary Showcase in November.
Flipside Fest is a music and art festival put on by the Duck Club in Garden City, Idaho as a way to harness the energy from the Treefort Music Festival that happens in Idaho every spring.
Residency | Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area AiR
This summer, I was chosen by the Bureau of Land Management as the 2019 Artist-in-Residence for the Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area (NCA).
The NCA contains the largest concentration of nesting raptors in North America, and one of the largest concentrations of nesting prairie falcons in the world. It also boasts the highest recorded density of ground squirrels, which is why so many raptors nest there.
For the residency, I wrote poetry about the sagebrush steppe ecosystem along the Snake River and the birds of prey that live there.
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